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This text examines the important continuing discussion of the rebirth of urbanism in Carolingian Europe. Drawing upon a good deal of new archaeological evidence from southern and northern Europe, Richard Hodges looks at the end of towns in Roman antiquity, the phenomenon of the Dark Age emporium, and the hotly disputed mechanisms which led to the inception of market towns during the age of Charlemagne. Much use is made, in particular, of recently excavated evidence from the Mediterranean, as well as from England.

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Hodges builds on his own work and helpfully translates recent archaeological findings to examine the debate over discontinuity between classical society and the rebirth of urbanism in the Carolingian West. --Choice

Hodges builds on his own work and helpfully translates recent archaeological findings to examine the debate over discontinuity between classical society and the rebirth of urbanism in the Carolingian West. -- Choice

"""Hodges builds on his own work and helpfully translates recent archaeological findings to examine the debate over discontinuity between classical society and the rebirth of urbanism in the Carolingian West."" --Choice"

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Richard Hodges, OBE, is Professor and Director of the Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia, UK, and Director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA. He is the editor of the Debates in Archaeology series; and his publications include Dark Age Economics, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement, Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne, Goodbye to the Vikings and (as co-author) Villa to Village, all published by Bloomsbury.

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